Beethoven’s Fidelio In Concert

The Florida Orchestra mounts a concert presentation of Beethoven’s only opera under the baton of Music Director Michael Francis. Stripping away the staging and elaborate theatrical sets allows the orchestra and vocalists to focus entirely on the composer's monumental score. The narrative follows a woman who disguises herself as a male prison guard to rescue her political-prisoner husband, a story of liberty and justice that translates powerfully to a purely symphonic setting inside the Mahaffey Theater.